[HPforGrownups] Re: All about Lupin replies

[Charme]

No: HPFGUIDX 122851

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> Pippin:
> Peter didn't answer the question. He asked another, "What
> was there to gain by refusing him?" --but that has implications
> for the current situation, where he is also being bullied by a more
> powerful wizard who is threatening to kill him.
> What has Peter to gain by refusing Sirius?  Only more shouting
> --I think he just wanted it to end.
>
>
> JKR worked for Amnesty International; she knows how easy it is
> to get a false confession by bullying a prisoner.
>
> Pippin

Charme:

Maybe, maybe not.  My perception of what I read was that Peter was backed 
into a corner by the confrontation of his deeds by people who trusted him - 
and notice Sirius trusted Peter when he convinced James and Lily to switch 
to Peter as the Secret Keeper. Even LV reveals Peter's flight from justice 
in GoF during the explanation he gives the DE's during this rebirthing:

"And then, not even a year ago, when I had almost abandoned hope, it 
happened at last... a servant

returned to me.  Wormtail here, who had faked his own death to escape 
justice, was driven out of

hiding by those he had once counted friends, and decided to return to his 
master.  He sought me

in the country where it had long been rumored I was hiding . . . helped, of 
course, by the rats

he met along the way.

Ok, so he faked his own death to escape justice? Hm, so we have Sirius and 
LV saying the same thing, independently in different situations and in 
different books.  Why would Peter be escaping justice back in the GH days if 
he wasn't guilty of anything? Note LV says "a servant RETURNED to me." 
Sirius and LV have Peter's true nature better than everyone else, I think: 
he's not loyal to anyone, he just looks for stronger and better wizards to 
protect him.

To your point about JKR - JKR has also made comments about Lupin being one 
of her favorite characters, and that he would be a teacher she would have 
liked to have. The Firewhisky bet is still on...

Charme